About the Authors

Asma Iqbal

Contributed equally to this work with: Asma Iqbal, Mahmoud Labib

Affiliation Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Food Directorate, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Mahmoud Labib

Contributed equally to this work with: Asma Iqbal, Mahmoud Labib

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Darija Muharemagic

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Syed Sattar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Brent R. Dixon

Brent.Dixon@hc-sc.gc.ca (BRD); Maxim. Berezovski@uottawa.ca (MVB)

Affiliation Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Food Directorate, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Maxim V. Berezovski

Brent.Dixon@hc-sc.gc.ca (BRD); Maxim. Berezovski@uottawa.ca (MVB)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS BRD MVB. Performed the experiments: AI ML DM. Analyzed the data: AI ML DM BRD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS BRD MVB. Wrote the paper: AI ML BRD MVB.